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ID: 7011957
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011957
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bracknell (inhabited place)  Bracknell (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 25 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.4167  decimal degrees
Long: 000 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Designated a New Town in 1948; expanding "satellite" town since 1961; headquarters of country's Meteorological Office; there is evidence of settlement here dating back to the Iron Age; Ascot racecourse is 4 mi away.

Names:
Bracknell (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Braccan Heal (H,V)  ............ recorded in a 10th-cen. Saxon document
Bracknell New Town (H,V)  ............ 1948-1983

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Bracknell Forest (unitary authority)  ................  Bracknell Forest (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Bracknell (inhabited place)  ....................  Bracknell (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Braccan Heal..........  [VP]
.......................  Bracknell Forest Online
Bracknell..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
....................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 121
....................  Bracknell Forest Online
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
Bracknell New Town..........  [VP]
...................................  Bracknell Forest Online
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 121
..................  Bracknell Forest Online
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2590585
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 33
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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